BUSN 489 - Field Experience in Business

3 Credits
This course provides students the opportunity to apply discipline-related knowledge through live, field-based projects with organizational clients from diverse industries and sectors, including entrepreneurs, small businesses, and non-profit organizations, among others. Teams of three to five students, with support of faculty, provide data, analysis, and recommendations designed to help clients achieve new insights on organizational challenges and to impact growth. This course is one option to meet the Experiential Learning requirement in the D.W. Maine College of Business.

Prerequisite(s): Senior status; minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 and minimum major GPA of 2.3.
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Propose solutions to a specific business problem in a summative research report.
2. Determine the scope of an experiential business project that considers all resource constraints.
3. Demonstrate project management skills in work with the project community stakeholders.
4. Relate experiential learning to disciplinary knowledge through systematic reflection.